Senior SQL Server DBA - Azure & VLDB Specialist

Premier Trailer Leasing; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Trailer Leasing is modernizing its data platform. This Senior SQL Server DBA role focuses on owning the SQL Server estate on Azure VMs, driving performance, reliability, and lifecycle management across large databases approaching 4 TB.

You will lead backups, migrations, and upgrades, while improving observability and pipeline automation. A veteran with 7+ years in SQL Server environments and strong scripting skills is ideal.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Production Database Administrator in multi-server SQL Server environments.
• Hands-on Azure VM SQL Server operations, sizing, storage, networking and monitoring.
• Experience with mixed transactional and reporting workloads in critical environments.
• Strong PowerShell, automation, and scripting skills for database administration.
• Experience planning/upgrading major SQL Server versions and migrations (2022+).
• BC/DR design, backup, recovery, failover and disaster recovery planning.
• Deep SQL Server internals: DMVs, wait stats, Query Store, Extended Events, memory & log management.
• T‑SQL troubleshooting, execution plans, and stored procedure optimization.
• Familiarity with Git-based deployment and automated pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Excellent communication, ownership mindset, and ability to work independently.
• Location: Plano, TX office; willing to commute 3+ days/week.

Responsibilities

• Own estate health, capacity planning, indexing strategy, and query performance across large SQL Server environments.
• Improve backup, restore, integrity checks, maintenance, and migrations for VLDBs (>1 TB, near 4 TB).
• Maintain production PowerShell scripts for automation, monitoring, and data movement.
• Plan and execute SQL Server upgrades, patches, migrations, and server transitions.
• Coordinate SQL Server within Azure VM design, compute sizing, storage, and networking.
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery workflows aligned with SLAs.
• Manage privileged access, permissions, auditing, and security configurations.
• Develop observability with tools and scripts (dbatools, sp_WhoIsActive, Ola scripts).
• Establish Git-based version control, release and rollback practices for database changes.
• Collaborate with Senior SQL Developer on T‑SQL code reviews and data loading routines.
• Document architecture, runbooks, upgrade records to reduce key-person dependency.

Skills

SQL Server DBA

Azure

PowerShell

T‑SQL

Performance tuning

VLDB handling

Git-based version control

Ownership & communication

Backup & DR

Monitoring & observability

Tools

GitHub

Bitbucket

dbatools

sp_WhoIsActive

Ola Hallengren scripts

PowerShell

Job description

Premier Trailer Leasing is modernizing its data platform. This Senior SQL Server DBA role focuses on owning the SQL Server estate on Azure VMs, driving performance, reliability, and lifecycle management across large databases approaching 4 TB.

You will lead backups, migrations, and upgrades, while improving observability and pipeline automation. A veteran with 7+ years in SQL Server environments and strong scripting skills is ideal.